FOI 25-362 Injuries as a Result of Ant-Social Behaviour at Train Stations
Freedom of Information Request
- Reference
- FOI 25-362 Injuries as a Result of Ant-Social Behaviour at Train Stations
- Request Date
- 21 Aug 2025
- Response Date
- 27 Aug 2025
- Information Requested
Please provide the number of ambulance callouts in response to anti-social behaviour related injuries that were acquired at the following railway stations: Edinburgh Waverley, Edinburgh Haymarket, Glasgow Queen Street, Glasgow Central, Glasgow Argyle Street, Dunfermline City, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Inverness, broken down into a table to reflect every financial year since 2021-22
- Response
There’s a distinction between creating new information and compiling information already held. Where a request can be answered by compiling information from readily available resources held by the public authority, this is not the same as creating new information. However, if collation of the information would require skill and complex judgement, the information is not held.
Although we hold information about incidents at specific locations and can report this at a postcode level, to report this at an individual address level we would be required to look at each incident and apply complex judgement to see whether the incident occurred within the railway stations requested. The reason for this is that there are multiple addresses within a postcode, there is also the potential for an incident to occur outside a premises and therefore not be attributed to a specific address. In addition, we do not hold incidents against a category of ‘Railway Stations’.
The Scottish Ambulance Service also does not categories incidents in a way that would allow us to report on if injuries were sustained through anti-social behaviour. It is for this reason we have applied section 17 of the Freedom of Information Scotland Act 2002, as information not held.
